Books/authors you enjoy reading

**BAD DAD** · 3rd June 2007, 19:19

Just finished, "The Moon Is Down" by john Steinbeck. Enjoyed Bryson's Brief History recently. Currently going through "The Sugarbag Years" by Tony Simpson for about the 3rd time in about 15 years. Good food for thought if you are even vaughly interested in NZ history or economics.

**Guitana** · 3rd June 2007, 22:02

HUSTLER Black Label by Larry Flint I only buy it for the articles!!!

**Mutley** · 4th June 2007, 17:03

Have read quite a few books mentioned here, eg The Earths Children series, The Merlin Trilogy, books by Lee Child, Patricia Cornwall ( the Scarpetta series ) hated her other books. Some writers not mentioned here that have had mini series made of their stories are Minette Walters and PD James. Have collected quite a few books of theirs over the years. John Case and Jeffery Deaver also write some pretty darn good books, along with Michael Connelly and Ian Rankin ( Love that abrasive old detective Rebus).
Always on the lookout for a good read. Thanks for quite a few interesting ideas KB.

**Nasty** · 4th June 2007, 18:48

Ok ... there are many so I am only including some of the ones i collect the series from:

Jonathan Kellerman Psychological Thrillers/mystery
Faye Kellerman - Cop Mystery/thrillers
Patricia Cornwall - thriller
Minette Walters - thriller
Lee Child - I even met him!! and have a signed book
James Patterson - Love all the various series from this guy esp womans murder club
Jeffery Deaver - just nice quick reading
Martina Cole - great semi trashy gangster
Kathy Reiches - forensic type
Robyn Cook - Thriller
Tess Gerritson - medical Thriller
Lisa Gardner - sorta cop/fbi mystery
Linda La Plante - various with lots of dead people
Micheal Connelly - Harry Borshe - fantastic cop stories
John Grisham - we all know this one.
Val McDiarmid - Wire n the blood- and more .. great reads.

Light reading
Sue Grafton - A through to S have been written this woman titles by the alphabet - follows a detective.
Janet Evanovich - the Stephanie Plum series is wonderful

Grub has added Dick Frances to my collection but I ain't read any of them

These are the collected ones I have many more and from what i have read today some new authors to try out!!

**peasea** · 4th June 2007, 19:19

The Edmonds Cook Book

**Jaxi** · 6th November 2007, 09:55

To "Pillars of the Earth"

Couldn't wait for it to come out in paperback early next year.... bought the reduced priced hardcover the other day "World Without End"... It's f*&^en huge, and proving a bit of an handful on the daily commute but I'm sure it's gonna be worth it though!

**Jaxi** · 6th November 2007, 09:58

Sorry guys... seems like only the other day that thread was going!! Didin't realise it has been dead since June!

**Cajun** · 6th November 2007, 10:02

all good, I picked up the final book in the Troy Series by David Gremmal, the one he did not finsh writing before he died, his wife Stella finshed it.

You can sorta tell it is not total worded like the previous books, but still good none the less.

**Swoop** · 6th November 2007, 10:05

Originally Posted by Guitana

HUSTLER Black Label by Larry Flint I only buy it for the articles!!!

An ex-navy mate had two of the Hustler cartoon magazines. Normal magazine but only containing their in-house cartoons. Bloody hilarious AND filthy!!!

**Jaxi** · 6th November 2007, 10:10

I had always avoided "fantasy" books. But loved the Troy books, awesome history and have since read loads of David Gemmell books, just finished the Rigante series tonight, boo hoo.... I really love the history , a little bit of majic that is believable as though it was someone dreaming or something is cool, but the full on jimand / joining stuff gets a bit much for me... Need to find some other authors... Books seem so cheap over her at 6 quid or so rather than 20 bucks back in NZ, that always seemed like so much money....

**Cajun** · 6th November 2007, 10:13

yeah i only read fantasty books, but i do not like books that contain alot of the magic stuff that alot of fantasy contain. But been looking forward to the final Troy book which only came out, picked it up warehouse last week for $29.95, not read much been busy but wanna get my teeth in to it about 1/4 thru at moment

**Mikkel** · 6th November 2007, 10:19

Everything by these authors:

Iain (M.) Banks
Neil Stephenson
William Gibson
Guy Gavriel Kay

They seriously write good stuff, and in very differing genres as well. They cover everything from high fantasy to cyberpunk and sci fi. Banks has written some awesome contemporary fiction works which I simply can not recommend enough.

**Pancakes** · 6th November 2007, 10:21

All of Jared Diamonds books are great! Well written and interesting. The book about Krakatoa - the day the world exploded (I think) is a cool inbsight to the world in the late 1800's as well as the eruption itself and Critical Mass by Phillip Ball is one of my favourates too.

**vifferman** · 6th November 2007, 10:38

Originally Posted by Cajun

yeah i only read fantasty books, but i do not like books that contain alot of the magic stuff that alot of fantasy contain.

Have you read any of J V Jones' books? I've read three the last few months, after my niece in Oz lent me "The Barbed Coil". She's an amazing author, but she is really hard on her characters! (She must have a really strange imagination...) If you like fantasy without all the twee or cute magical stuff, you'd love her books.

I made the mistake of reading her latest trilogy, not realising it hadn't been completed. Ended up with three people in our house wanting to read the last one, which luckily was released in Mrka on October 16th. However, it's not available here yet, so in desperation I ordered it from Amazon, rather than waiting till January for the library to get it.